Download or read book The Everything I Have Lost written by Sylvia Zéleny and published by Cinco Puntos Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 12-year-old Julia keeps a diary about her life growing up in Juarez, Mexico. Life in Juarez is strange. People say it's the murder capital of the world. Dad’s gone a lot. They can’t play outside because it isn’t safe. Drug cartels rule the streets. Cars and people disappear, leaving behind pet cats. Then Dad disappears and Julia and her brother go live with her aunt in El Paso. What’s happened to her Dad? Julia wonders. Is he going to disappear forever? A coming-of-age story set in today’s Juarez. Sylvia Zéleny is a bilingual author from Sonora, México. Sylvia has published several short-story collections and novels in Spanish. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas at El Paso where she is currently a Visiting Writer. In 2016 she created CasaOctavia, a residence for women and LGBTQ writers from Latinamerica.

Download or read book Lost Everything written by Brian Francis Slattery and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the critically acclaimed literary sci-fi novels "Spaceman Blues" and "Liberation" comes an incandescent and thrilling future history dystopia in the vein of "1984" or "The Hunger Games."

Download or read book Everything We Lost written by Valerie Geary and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Lucid and dense with detail, Everything We Lost is Gone Girl meets The X-Files, a mesmerizing dive into the changeling depths of memory and grief.” — Carrie La Seur, author of The Home Place and The Weight of an Infinite Sky

Download or read book I Lost Everything in the Post Natal Depression written by Erma Bombeck and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of mordantly hilarious and sharply-observed stories on motherhood from the bestselling author of Family—The Ties That Bind . . . And Gag! Erma Bombeck has learned a few things about children and family over the years—and in a way that is uniquely and wonderfully her own, she shares everything she knows with her readers. Whether it's cleaning up after the kids and him, or expendable mothers-in-law, Erma Bombeck gets to the heart of the matter and makes us laugh through our tears. Praise for I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression “A truly wise and funny woman; a laugh-till-you-cry book.”—Library Journal “The smiles never stop until the last chapter ends with a poignant insight into growing up and being a parent.”—The Abilene Reporter-News

Download or read book Everything Lost written by William S. Burroughs and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late summer 1953, as he returned to Mexico City after a seven-month expedition through the jungles of Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru, William Burroughs began a notebook of final reflections on his four years in Latin America. His first novel, Junkie, had just been published and he would soon be back in New York to meet Allen Ginsberg and together complete the manuscripts of what became The Yage Letters and Queer. Yet this notebook, the sole survivor from that period, reveals Burroughs not as a writer on the verge of success, but as a man staring down personal catastrophe and visions of looming cultural disaster. Losses that will not let go of him haunt Burroughs throughout the notebook: "Bits of it keep floating back to me like memories of a daytime nightmare." However, out of these dark reflections we see emerge vivid fragments of Burroughs' fiction and, even more tellingly, unique, primary evidence for the remarkable ways in which his early manuscripts evolved. Assembled in facsimile and transcribed by Geoffrey D. Smith, John M. Bennett, and Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, the notebook forces us to change the way we see both Burroughs and his writing at a turning point in his literary biography.

Download or read book I ve Lost Everything Now What written by Tom Morris and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-10-05 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though it seems unrecoverable, you can grow through loss and what feels like you have lost everything.

Download or read book The Girl Who Lost Everything written by Siobhan Addo-Yeboah and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophie was a girl born into a society that saw nothing wrong with divorce or war. She had had to have a hard life. First, her life was ruined by her dad going to war. Then her evil stepmother tortured her that was when Sophie ran away. She had to face, this time, life s torture of homelessness and the fear of losing her dad. She did find a second home though. Would things ever be the same again . . .?

Download or read book The Man Who Lost Everything written by Chris Strange and published by Cheeky Minion. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every man has a limit. Miles is about to find his. For the first time in his whole miserable life, freelance Tunneler Miles Franco finally has his shit together. He’s left behind his history of violence and interdimensional smuggling to take on consulting work with the Bluegate Police Department. He’s collecting regular paychecks, he’s paying tax, he’s even going on blind dates. But when his friend, Detective Vivian Reed, comes to him for help, his peaceful life is shattered. Vivian’s sister has been kidnapped. They have issued no ransom. No demands. They don’t want money. They only want revenge. If Miles and Vivian are going to get her sister back, they’ll have to abandon everything they’ve worked for. There will be no room for law or conscience where they’re going. Miles is returning to the mean streets that made him. And there will be no coming back. Join Miles once again for more hard-boiled urban fantasy action in The Man Who Lost Everything.

Download or read book Courageous Aging written by Ken Druck and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An inspirational guide for aging with confidence packed with insight and wisdom for living life to its fullest. A must read” (John Gray, author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus). When it comes to getting older, there are so many destructive and limiting myths, biases, stereotypes, and misconceptions. In this book, Dr. Ken Druck, drawing on both his personal and professional experience, shows how people can make peace with—and find joy in—every stage of life. It offers a refreshingly realistic view of the aging process, touching upon its physical and psychological challenges, its aches and pains and feelings of vulnerability—as well as the new peace, freedom, and confidence it can give birth to. This practical and inspirational approach speaks to anyone who wants to redefine what it means to age and embrace the transition into a new chapter in life, filled with potential.

Download or read book Fields of Grace written by Hannah Luce and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable tale of hope and survival, Hannah Luce tells how, as the sole survivor of a terrible plane crash, she came to grips with her faith: “a calamitous, fascinating memoir, written with surprising spiritual sophistication” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). On May 11, 2012, a small plane carrying five young adults, en route to a Christian youth rally, crashed in a Kansas field, skidding 200 yards before hitting a tree and bursting into flames. Only two survived the crash: ex-marine Austin Anderson, who would die the next morning from extensive burns, and his friend Hannah Luce, the daughter of Teen Mania founder and influential youth minister Ron Luce. This is Hannah’s story. In Fields of Grace, Hannah details the investigation of her faith, her coming-of-age as the dutiful daughter of Evangelical royalty, her decision to join her father’s ministry outreach to teens, and her miraculous survival and recovery following the accident. It also serves as a tribute and testament to the lives of the dear friends who perished in the catastrophic plane crash and reveals how their memory continues to inspire all that she does. Here is the “riveting personal account” (Booklist) of a girl who grew up as the daughter of one of the most influential evangelical leaders of our time, who questioned her early religious convictions somewhere along the way and who, from the embers of that doomed plane ride, finally found her faith.

Download or read book Lost Books written by Flavia Bruni and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions of survival and loss bedevil the study of early printed books. Many early publications are not particularly rare, but many have disappeared altogether. Here leading specialists in the field explore different strategies for recovering this lost world of print.

Download or read book Born Again on the Mountain written by Anurima Sinha and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I realised that I had to do something in my life so that people would stop looking at me with pity’ National level volleyball player Arunima Sinha had a promising future ahead of her. Then one day she was shoved from a moving train by thieves as she attempted to fight them off. The horrific accident cost the twenty-four-year-old her left leg and sporting career, but it never deterred her. Two years later she had retrained as a mountaineer and become the first female amputee to reach Mount Everest. This is her unforgettable story of hope, courage and resilience.

Download or read book The Vengeance Of Leah A Girl Who Lost Everything s Vow To A Reaper written by Nagi Mashiro and published by FUNGUILD. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Do you swear on revenge?" A room covered in blood. My mother's lying corpse. Being helpless, I was at the mercy of the man in front of me, fully clothed in black. On the outskirts of a small town, a girl named Leah lived together with her mother. One day, her mother who was her only family, is killed by a beast controlled by an unknown being. While trying to avenge her mother, she is defeated and in danger of death. At that moment, something reached out to her... A girl who swore on revenge and an inhuman being who looks of a boy's story about love and revenge begins.

Download or read book Sweet Demotion written by Lonn Friend and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first book, Life on Planet Rock, author Lonn Friend shared his ringside view of rocks decade of decadence. Now, in Sweet Demotion, the veteran rock scribe takes off the gloves and battles himself. Lonn was enjoying a six-figure multi-media career in 1998 when, at the end of a four-year run as a record company VP, he was bitch slapped by the Universe; his professional ride came to a crashing pause. But instead of hiring headhunters or putting a resume together to find another gig, Lonn hit the rock-and-roll road less traveled. The result is a brutally transparent, shamelessly self-deprecating mid-life memoir of a writer who stopped making money and started seeking truth. Sweet Demotion chronicles a thirteen-year period of personal deconstruction, spiritual madness, and bizarre anecdotal wordplay where faith was lost in everything but the moment and the music. Lonns intimate adventure invites the reader to a porn burial in the desert, a Janis Joplin ghost sighting, a Dallas meditation on the anniversary of JFKs assassination following the interview of a heavy metal legend, and the sharing of sacred space on a northeast lake with the lead singer of Aerosmith. Sweet Demotion is a sojourn to near-enlightenment that no one but Lonn Friend could have possibly experienced.

Download or read book Insurgency written by Jeremy W. Peters and published by Crown. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • How did the party of Lincoln become the party of Trump? From an acclaimed political reporter for The New York Times comes the definitive story of the mutiny that shattered American politics. “A bracing account of how the party of Lincoln and Reagan was hijacked by gadflies and grifters who reshaped their movement into becoming an anti-democratic cancer that attacked the U.S. Capitol.”—Joe Scarborough An epic narrative chronicling the fracturing of the Republican Party, Jeremy Peters’s Insurgency is the story of a party establishment that believed it could control the dark energy it helped foment—right up until it suddenly couldn’t. How, Peters asks, did conservative values that Republicans claimed to cherish, like small government, fiscal responsibility, and morality in public service, get completely eroded as an unshakable faith in Donald Trump grew to define the party? The answer is a tale traced across three decades—with new reporting and firsthand accounts from the people who were there—of populist uprisings that destabilized the party. The signs of conflict were plainly evident for anyone who cared to look. After Barack Obama’s election convinced many Republicans that they faced an existential demographics crossroads, many believed the only way to save the party was to create a more inclusive and diverse coalition. But party leaders underestimated the energy and popular appeal of those who would pull the party in the opposite direction. They failed to see how the right-wing media they hailed as truth-telling was warping the reality in which their voters lived. And they did not understand the complicated moral framework by which many conservatives would view Trump, leading evangelicals and one-issue voters to shed Republican orthodoxy if it delivered a Supreme Court that would undo Roe v. Wade. In this sweeping history, Peters details key junctures and episodes to unfurl the story of a revolution from within. Its architects had little interest in the America of the new century but a deep understanding of the iron will of a shrinking minority. With Trump as their polestar, their gamble paid greater dividends than they’d ever imagined, extending the life of far-right conservatism in United States domestic policy into the next half century.

Download or read book How to Lose Everything written by Christa Couture and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2021-09-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful testament to resilience by performing and recording artist Christa Couture.

Download or read book A Field Guide to Getting Lost written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, natural lore, cultural history, and art criticism.” —Los Angeles Times From the award-winning author of Orwell's Roses, a stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown Written as a series of autobiographical essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Rebecca Solnit's life to explore issues of uncertainty, trust, loss, memory, desire, and place. Solnit is interested in the stories we use to navigate our way through the world, and the places we traverse, from wilderness to cities, in finding ourselves, or losing ourselves. While deeply personal, her own stories link up to larger stories, from captivity narratives of early Americans to the use of the color blue in Renaissance painting, not to mention encounters with tortoises, monks, punk rockers, mountains, deserts, and the movie Vertigo. The result is a distinctive, stimulating voyage of discovery.